D.J. Mendel
Also Known As: DJ Mendel
Biography: D.J. Mendel is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. He has acted frequently in the films of director Hal Hartley.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Fay Grim
Overview: Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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The Girl from Monday
Overview: A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-26
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Meanwhile
Overview: Meanwhile concerns Joe Fulton, a man who can do anything from fixing your sink to arranging international financing for a construction project. He produces online advertising and he’s written a big fat novel. He’s also a pretty good drummer. But success eludes him. For Joe can’t keep himself from fixing other people’s problems. His own ambitions are constantly interrupted by his willingness and ability to go out of his way for others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-29
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The New Math(s)
Overview: This film is the visual component of the multi-media collaboration between the composer Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-12
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Excerpts from Soon
Overview: Excerpts from performances of Hal Hartley's play "Soon", a production inspired by the 1993 events in Waco, Texas involving the religious sect called the Branch Davidians and their collision with the US Federal Government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth and Its Consequences
Overview: A series of impromptu interviews with Hal Hartley, Adrienne Shelly, and some of Hartley's other most frequent collaborators on his style, career, and process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-11-01
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The Cloud of Unknowing
Overview: A young doctor believes that the spirit of his late wife has possessed a troubled patient in his hospital.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-10
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Upon Reflection: The Making of Trust
Overview: An 18-minute documentary made in 2005 by perennial Hartley actor D.J. Mendel, reunites the director and line producer Ted Hope with actors Adrienne Shelly and Martin Donovan for an off-the-cuff, affectionate, and surprisingly candid (it was hardly an easy shoot) recollection of their collaboration on the demanding Hartley's second feature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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My America
Overview: 21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-04
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Accomplice
Overview: An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-22
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The Book of Life
Overview: New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdalena discuss and debate the End of the World.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-22
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No Such Thing
Overview: A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-29
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